‘My Daily Thought’ Archives
Aftermath of Punggol East by-election – Gen Y explained why PAP lost
Transitioning: First of all, thank you for responding to our questionnaire on the Workers’ Party Punggol East sizzling by-election victory, can you please state your educational qualification, marital status and work experience? Dan: Bachelor [...]
5 Things Punggol East Residents Will Consider Before Voting
Friends have being calling me to attend the Punggol East by-election rallies started since yesterday but I was reluctant to attend any. Maybe I am still suffering from the election rally fever during GE 2011 when we all have to prepare our [...]
Punggol East by-election: Strengths, weaknesses and future of PAP and WP
Singaporeans are still ravishing in the fact that they can soon flock to packed charged-up stadiums again to hear their favourite political parties pump them up during the forthcoming Punggol East by-election on 26 January. Many have [...]
Which party will win the Punggol East by-election?
I took a cab ride last week to my appointment and the driver was chatty on the Punggol East by-election - he told me that the Workers' Party will win the Punggol East by-election even though it is a five-cornered battle! I told him that even [...]
Five Important Lessons to Learn from the AIM Fall-out
As the dust settled for the AIM mishap and many Singaporeans trying their best to celebrate the first week of the new year amidst the gloom of an impending recession, I have pen five important lessons to learn from the AIM incident. 1. Never [...]
Is there any other better way to engage the blogging community besides suing Alex Au?
I have read through Alex Au's blog posts and felt uncomfortable as some of the allegations were truly hard-hitting and bordered on defamatory. However, I disagreed with the latest Prime Minister's defamatory suit against him. The [...]
Workers’ Party Yaw and PAP’s Palmer – Who is the Better Culprit?
The year 2012 opened with a bang when Workers' Party Yaw Shin Leong fled from the country and his constituents at Hougang as news of his marital infidelity appeared on TRE - a online socio-political blog. Michael Palmer now ended the year the [...]
The Michael Palmer scandal – politics and sex don’t mix well
Just when everyone is trying to enjoy some festive peace during the year-end season, PAP drops a bombshell and announced that Mr Michael Palmer, MP for Punggol East SMC has resigned due to a sex scandal. Michael Palmer must have been the first [...]
Boycott our ineffective NTUC union – cancel your membership fees now!
Transitioning is starting a campaign to boycott our ineffective NTUC union and asking our readers who are NTUC members to cancel their membership with immediate effect. The monthly membership fee is $9 a month from Jan-Nov and the December [...]
Aftermath of PRC Chinese SMRT Strike – Who is to be Blamed?
Latest: 5th PRC Chinese driver charged sentenced to 6 weeks' jail. As the dust settled for the first illegal industrial strike here in 26 years - ironically conducted by foreign workers - Singaporeans are left wondering if there will be [...]
Will you put your ailing mum in a nursing home?
orange grove changi I walked past the old building of Orange Grove Nursing Home off Loyang Avenue amidst a darkening sky that threatened to rain. I went there with a heavy heart as I knew that mum does not like us to place her in a nursing [...]
5 Lessons to Learn from the PRC Chinese SMRT Strike
Latest: Police has arrested four PRC Chinese drivers for illegal strike. In the midst of a unusually rainy wet festive November month, Singapore was hit with a bombshell when 170 PRC Chinese bus captains conducted an illegal strike two days [...]
PRC Chinese SMRT Strike: Tweak tripartite movement to be more representative of workers
IT IS disturbing to know that foreign workers on work permits here took the law into their own hands ("102 SMRT bus drivers protest against pay"; yesterday). One also wonders whether they have a proper channel to seek redress when they [...]
Our unkind and ungracious society – be the change you want to see
I was passing by Dolby Gaut MRT station last Sunday enroute to church when I saw rows of placard of daffodils lining up the patch of grass. On the placards are the words "World Kindness Day" - an event to be held on 13 November. Frankly [...]
My online forum letter on Straits Times: “Don’t stop fine-tuning work passes to protect local jobs.”
I APPLAUD the Government's move to reduce the inflow of S-Pass work permit holders ("Govt may curb inflow of S-Pass holders"; last Friday). Currently, a company can hire an S-pass permit holder if it can pay the foreign worker at least [...]
